Problems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of MedicineProblems of Social Hygiene, Public Health and History of Medicine0869-866X2412-2106Joint-Stock Company Chicot142910.32687/0869-866X-2024-32-1-28-34НеопределенThe procedural aspects of postmortem defense of non-material goods of patientPrisyazhnayaN Vprisyazhnaya_n_v@staff.sechenov.ruBobrovskayaO Nbobrovskaya_o_n@staff.sechenov.ruKaletskiyE Gkaletskiy_e_g@staff.sechenov.ruAlexandrovaM Valeksandrova_m_v@student.sechenov.ruThe Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education “I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University” of Minzdrav of Russia (Sechenov University), 119991, Moscow, Russia110220243211904202519042025Copyright © 2025,2025<p>The protection of privacy of patient that is applying for medical care, diagnostics and treatment is one of the main pillars of implementation of medical activities. However, despite sufficient volume of legal regulation of lifetime respect of privacy of examination, observation and facts of medical intervention, in practice occur situations when privacy ceases to be such after death of the patient.<br />The article is based on results of content-analysis of normative legal acts (n = 11), scientific publications (n = 52), cases of judicial practice (n = 8).<br />The problem of non-observance of privacy becomes especially actual after death of person whose name is widely known. Having no possibility to impact on causes and modes of obtaining and propagating such specific information, the deceased, one's illness, stages of treatment, struggle for life, resources spent, clinics and specialists involved become object of close attention of various subjects (mas media, Internet communities) that use obtained information for speculative purposes at the expense of fixation of inhumane public replicas and increase of number of browsing. Despite prohibition provided for by law of dissemination of information constituting privacy of applying for medical care, after death of patient and application of measures of legal liability for fact of such a disclosure, information leak occurs regularly and information that got into common access frequently discredit good name of the deceased or develop other problems that are subjects to legal protection, for family members and legal successors. Yet, circumstances of transfer of information of limited access by medical organization (data leakage) or by intent of medical worker are difficult to be proved. Therefore, in judicial practice there are practically no such cases. At that, after death of famous people, juristic community regularly faces problems of protecting personal rights and non-material values from the side of relatives, legal successors and other interested persons.<br />On the basis of formal logical method and system analysis method of disputable situations, possible perspectives of applying for judicial protection, procedural characteristics of procedure of applying for protection and possible composition of participants are presented.</p>lawsuitreliable informationprivacy of medical interventionnon-material valuessuccessionсудебный искдостоверная информациятайна медицинского вмешательстванематериальные благаправопреемство[Federal Law “On the basics of protecting the health of citizens in the Russian Federation” dated 21.11.2011 N 323-FZ (latest edition). 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